“Shockwaves” is a VR game (scavenger hunt for intelligence) based on the tribulations of US military interrogators in Iraq during the height of the insurgency (2006). Its original form was a full-length play inspired by Matthew Alexander’s memoir “How to Break a Terrorist: The U.S. Interrogators Who used Brains, Not Brutality to Take Down the Deadliest Man in Iraq.” J. Dakota Powell did a reading of the play with Victor Verhaeghe (Boardwalk Empire) playing the lead interrogator (“gator”), and then transformed the play into an immersive experience designed for the Rift and Vive. The Shockwaves demo was presented at VR Jubilee at the Time-Life Center (Time Inc. exclusive media sponsor) in January 2017.